It's not like your car has an actual INS. The speed is about the only actual useful information (for navigation) that the car can supply that a current model phone cannot obtain for itself.
Start shipping bluetooth capable ODB systems (yes, I am aware of the dongles) and now a phone really does have everything it needs.
You may be confused. They aren't referring to the white silicone paste or the sticky pad that is normally use to attach the heat spreader (top of the CPU you normally see) to the OEM heatsink/fan.
They are talking about the material used to attach the heat spreader to the actual CPU core. Unless you are prying the metal cap off the top of the CPU you aren't replacing this existing TIM with your $4 arctic silver compound.
The antennas are still directional. They use phased arrays to perform beam steering. No "moving" parts and a low profile are the plus, but they are relatively low gain for the surface area and power used.
Also of note, O3b is seeing 500Mbit forward link data rates on a 1.3 meter dish and getting 150ms round trip delay on their MEO satellites (vs. 500+MS) on GEO.
The caveat is that you need either an expensive tracking antenna or two regular antenna to keep from breaking signal as you negotiate satellites moving into and out of your window.
I haven't ever heard it put in exactly those terms, but it makes more sense to me now. We are all going to get old, and while we may or may not be as effective as a younger (and cheaper) employee, that doesn't mean we are valueless or unable to do the work. By and large the young can pickup and move more easily (god knows I did my fair share of that to advance my career), and they can take more chances. When you are old and just need to hang on 5 more years to retire, that Union starts to look a lot more beneficial.
It's funny you should mention basterdisation of the English language as according to Oxford University many subsets of American English are much closer to the original Anglo-Germanic root English language than those dialects of Brittish English that exist today.
Go visit the fishermen in Tangiers Island, or the 7th district in Maryland if you want to hear what "English" actually sounds like.
I think you may have placed the emphasis on the wrong word on your response. It is likely less about being Asian and more about being an immegrant. Being willing to go to such lengths in order to improve your situation in life may contribute a lot more to how much effort your children put forth in school than the color of your skin or your "culture" (believe it or not, not all Asian cultures are similar or place the same values on things such as formal schooling).
In the USA, this is compounded by the belief by the majority of the population that they're in the upper middle class (or will be Real Soon Now).
I'm pretty tired of hearing this temporarily embarrased millionares trope. The middle-class, poor, or what have you that vote in droves for policies that clearly benefit the wealthy do not do it because they believe they will be wealthy themselves one day; they do it because the TV, Internet, and print media they choose to view tells them it's the fair or moral thing to do. We Americans do like to feel that we are the good guys, even if we may be misguided or misled.
And while the middle class may be disappearing on paper, people who "believe" themselves to be middle class, or upper middle class, likely do so because they are living a comfortable lifestyle and as such have no reason to think that they are poor. Just because the wealthy have greater wealth now than they did in the past (shifting the mean income) doesn't mean two cars, a tv, and the means to feed your children is no longer middle class.
Just reminds me of the late '90s / early 00's when Amazon was losing so much money each quarter for years on end. I thought there was no way they would ever dig themselves out of debt.
If we aren't talking about the autonomous cars of today, but rather purpose built vehicles of tomorrow, isn't it much more likely that they could survive a more unbalanced accident? If you don't have the drivers directly behind the engine/motor facing a wall of glass, etc. Maybe sitting backwards with proper neck/head support and a harness seatbelt.
I wonder what would happen if everyone utilized these autonomous cars programmed for the greater good. In this 3-way accident situation as outlined above, do all three cars spontaneously decide to swerve off the road and crash into a tree?
Just because human intelligence may not be based on simple triggering does not mean that the model wouldn't work for a computational AI. Or are you arguing that anything produced by such mechanics wouldn't be "true" AI?
Car loans used to regularly reach the double digit interest percentages as well. Sure, you may get a 6 year loan now, but if you are literally paying less interest than the inflation rate (I got 1.9% financing last year), you are being paid to take a loan.
I had enough cash to purchase the vehicle outright (though it would have put a hurt on my savings), or I could have paid about 1/2 to 1/3rd comfortably, but when I saw the breakdown of how much I would be paying in interest I chose to finance the whole thing. I then took a good chunk of that savings I had expected to put on the car and knocked several years off of my home mortgage.
$50 for enough material to cover a watch face sounds expensive. If it were the same price for a 7" phone screen you would be looking at thousands of dollars.
Poverty and drug culture (rather than race) are more closely linked to crime.
For an example of this look to Eureka, California. 80% White, less than 2% Black, and one of highest crime (both violent and non-violent) in the entire country.
First of all, that's not a Google TV, as the Google TV is an actual branded specially modified version of the OS with associated hardware.
And most of these Android sticks do not effortlessly work at 1080P. Most of them are running only slightly modified versions of the Android OS that was paired with their processor (usually a RockChip variant) on one tablet or another. The reported resolution almost never matches the actual resolution (unless you update with one of the community based Android releases).
For instance, in your Mk808B it doesn't actually run 1080P unless you update to the 1080P kernel (usually paired with the Finless ROM).
They also have notoriously bad WiFi reception and speeds, overheat, and generally run buggy as hell.
But don't take my word for it, read up at the forums at http://www.armtvtech.com/ (Where you will find out that at real 1080P your MK808b can only run a select few videos)
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Sprint MVNOs offer some of the best deals in the US. I currently pay $10/mo for 400 Minutes, 400 Texts, and 300MB of data using RingPlus.
If they continue with the MVNO model and add T-Mobile towers to the network, that sounds pretty great to me.
It's not like your car has an actual INS. The speed is about the only actual useful information (for navigation) that the car can supply that a current model phone cannot obtain for itself.
Start shipping bluetooth capable ODB systems (yes, I am aware of the dongles) and now a phone really does have everything it needs.
You may be confused. They aren't referring to the white silicone paste or the sticky pad that is normally use to attach the heat spreader (top of the CPU you normally see) to the OEM heatsink/fan.
They are talking about the material used to attach the heat spreader to the actual CPU core. Unless you are prying the metal cap off the top of the CPU you aren't replacing this existing TIM with your $4 arctic silver compound.
The antennas are still directional. They use phased arrays to perform beam steering. No "moving" parts and a low profile are the plus, but they are relatively low gain for the surface area and power used.
Also of note, O3b is seeing 500Mbit forward link data rates on a 1.3 meter dish and getting 150ms round trip delay on their MEO satellites (vs. 500+MS) on GEO.
The caveat is that you need either an expensive tracking antenna or two regular antenna to keep from breaking signal as you negotiate satellites moving into and out of your window.
I haven't ever heard it put in exactly those terms, but it makes more sense to me now. We are all going to get old, and while we may or may not be as effective as a younger (and cheaper) employee, that doesn't mean we are valueless or unable to do the work. By and large the young can pickup and move more easily (god knows I did my fair share of that to advance my career), and they can take more chances. When you are old and just need to hang on 5 more years to retire, that Union starts to look a lot more beneficial.
It's funny you should mention basterdisation of the English language as according to Oxford University many subsets of American English are much closer to the original Anglo-Germanic root English language than those dialects of Brittish English that exist today.
Go visit the fishermen in Tangiers Island, or the 7th district in Maryland if you want to hear what "English" actually sounds like.
I think you may have placed the emphasis on the wrong word on your response. It is likely less about being Asian and more about being an immegrant. Being willing to go to such lengths in order to improve your situation in life may contribute a lot more to how much effort your children put forth in school than the color of your skin or your "culture" (believe it or not, not all Asian cultures are similar or place the same values on things such as formal schooling).
In the USA, this is compounded by the belief by the majority of the population that they're in the upper middle class (or will be Real Soon Now).
I'm pretty tired of hearing this temporarily embarrased millionares trope. The middle-class, poor, or what have you that vote in droves for policies that clearly benefit the wealthy do not do it because they believe they will be wealthy themselves one day; they do it because the TV, Internet, and print media they choose to view tells them it's the fair or moral thing to do. We Americans do like to feel that we are the good guys, even if we may be misguided or misled.
And while the middle class may be disappearing on paper, people who "believe" themselves to be middle class, or upper middle class, likely do so because they are living a comfortable lifestyle and as such have no reason to think that they are poor. Just because the wealthy have greater wealth now than they did in the past (shifting the mean income) doesn't mean two cars, a tv, and the means to feed your children is no longer middle class.
I wonder if the Natalie Portman thing will still be mentioned when she is 40. Of course presuming /. will still be around.
Just reminds me of the late '90s / early 00's when Amazon was losing so much money each quarter for years on end. I thought there was no way they would ever dig themselves out of debt.
If we aren't talking about the autonomous cars of today, but rather purpose built vehicles of tomorrow, isn't it much more likely that they could survive a more unbalanced accident? If you don't have the drivers directly behind the engine/motor facing a wall of glass, etc. Maybe sitting backwards with proper neck/head support and a harness seatbelt.
I wonder what would happen if everyone utilized these autonomous cars programmed for the greater good. In this 3-way accident situation as outlined above, do all three cars spontaneously decide to swerve off the road and crash into a tree?
When this is common, I will be first in line for the OBD-999 hack that shows I always have 5 children in the back of my car.
There was a online poll this week hosted by the largest radio station for Southern Maryland, and the result was >94% would leave if they could.
Just because human intelligence may not be based on simple triggering does not mean that the model wouldn't work for a computational AI. Or are you arguing that anything produced by such mechanics wouldn't be "true" AI?
Car loans used to regularly reach the double digit interest percentages as well. Sure, you may get a 6 year loan now, but if you are literally paying less interest than the inflation rate (I got 1.9% financing last year), you are being paid to take a loan.
I had enough cash to purchase the vehicle outright (though it would have put a hurt on my savings), or I could have paid about 1/2 to 1/3rd comfortably, but when I saw the breakdown of how much I would be paying in interest I chose to finance the whole thing. I then took a good chunk of that savings I had expected to put on the car and knocked several years off of my home mortgage.
$50 for enough material to cover a watch face sounds expensive. If it were the same price for a 7" phone screen you would be looking at thousands of dollars.
Poverty and drug culture (rather than race) are more closely linked to crime.
For an example of this look to Eureka, California. 80% White, less than 2% Black, and one of highest crime (both violent and non-violent) in the entire country.
Hire people that understand technology and can learn new tech on the run. Degrees are meaningless in tech and are becoming more so in all areas.
So, how do you propose to do this if those people do not have a considerable body of experience?
Will everyone have to work on some open source project while flipping burgers for years to prove their worth?
Not arguing your point, but you must be using a wonky inflation index to get you from $0.40 to $2.
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Oh, and since I forgot to mention it, I own over a dozen of these sticks including the 808 and 808b.
First of all, that's not a Google TV, as the Google TV is an actual branded specially modified version of the OS with associated hardware.
And most of these Android sticks do not effortlessly work at 1080P. Most of them are running only slightly modified versions of the Android OS that was paired with their processor (usually a RockChip variant) on one tablet or another. The reported resolution almost never matches the actual resolution (unless you update with one of the community based Android releases).
For instance, in your Mk808B it doesn't actually run 1080P unless you update to the 1080P kernel (usually paired with the Finless ROM).
They also have notoriously bad WiFi reception and speeds, overheat, and generally run buggy as hell.
But don't take my word for it, read up at the forums at http://www.armtvtech.com/ (Where you will find out that at real 1080P your MK808b can only run a select few videos)
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I guess it's a good thing the President hasn't recognized Mr. Limbaugh as head of our state sanctioned official news organization.